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Revelation space universe volume 3
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The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence-and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety-or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads...
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Old Man's War universe volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
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Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game - as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a...
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Pub. Date
c2005
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When humanity reaches the stars, it discovers that it must defend its claim to new planets against alien races with similar expansionist tendencies. To ensure the expertise of its soldiers, Earth creates the Colonial Defense Force, an army of men and women otherwise classified as senior citizens, who give up their lives on Earth for an uncertain and perilous future among the stars. Scalzi's first novel presents a new approach to military sf, boasting...
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Safehold series volume 1
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As Earth is destroyed by an enemy alien race known as the Gbaba, the Terran Federation Navy embarks on a secret mission to set up a new civilization on a distant planet, but when the operation fails, Lieutenant Commander Nimue Alban finds herself on a planet called Safehold, where she must comply with the religious beliefs of its people or be killed.
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Saga of seven suns volume 2
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The second installment in the Saga of the Seven Suns finds the humans of the Terran Hanseatic Federation of Earth under attack by the hydrogues who are seeking retaliation against the Terrans for their unwitting destruction of a hydrogue planet.
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Vatta's war volume 5
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Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
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Xanth volume 23
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When a climatic catastrophe threatens to destroy the forests of Xanth, Breanna of the Black Wave and her new-found love Justin must rely on their common sense to save themselves and their planet.
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2010
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A master sergeant prowling the back country of the Balkans and a firearms instructor and former Marine find themselves at the center of a growing network of resistance against an invading force of alien, carnivorous Shongari intent on annihilating the human race.
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Ringworld series volume 3
Pub. Date
1996
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Strange events are happening on Ringworld, calling adventurer Louis Wu back into service, and revealing the need for one central Protector to sit on the Ringworld throne.
10) The sky people
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Lords of Creation volume 1
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Marc Vitrac is sent to the U.S. Commonwealth base on the planet Venus, where he studies the different types of life found on the planet and tries to learn how they evolved and adapted.
11) The silent war
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The future of Earth and human accomplishments in space hang in the balance when fighting for control of the resources of the Asteroid Belt escalates between the Astro Corporation and Humphries Space Systems, and others try to take advantage of the chaos.
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Vatta's war volume 3
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Kylara Vatta draws on her killer instinct for business and battle after her parents are killed and the Vatta shipping empire is destroyed, pushing Kylara to find those responsible and get revenge.
13) War of honor
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Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 10
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Honor Harrington, called home from the front to help maintain an uneasy diplomatic peace, fears ineptitude in the newly formed government of the Star Kingdom is going to lead to a resumption of hostilities.
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Last of the Jedi volume 9
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Double agent Ferus Olin, sent to the planet of Alderaan to uncover a secret that could control the future of the Jedi, finds himself questioning his own past as he is confronted by the former Jedi and Sith Lord Darth Vader.
16) Abyss
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Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
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Luke Skywalker tries to redeem the Jedi Order while searching for answers about Jacen Solo's downfall, battling the Sith, and probing the mysteries of the Maw Cluster with his son, Ben.
17) Renegade
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Rebel force volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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X-7, an assassin who was trained by Commander Rezi Soresh, finds that Luke Skywalker is harder to kill than he initially figured he would be and tries to manufacture a betrayal within the Rebel Alliance.
18) Horizon storms
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Saga of seven suns volume 3
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War continues to consume the galaxy in book three of The Saga of Seven Suns. The three factions of humanity--the Hansa, the Therons, and the Roamers--have joined with the alien Ildirans in an uneasy alliance against the gas-giant-dwelling aliens known as the hydrogues, who are themselves engaged in a titanic struggle with the star-dwelling faeros. As the Ildirans are torn apart by their own civil war, will humanity be able to survive both their internal...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
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Marooned on the enemy-occupied planet of Marduk, despised royal Brat Prince Roger MacClintock and his Marine bodyguards must march and fight their way through steaming jungles, carnivorous beasts, murderous natives, and perpetual rain to the only starport— which is controlled by the Empire's worst enemies. But neither Roger nor the Marines are about to give up. Marduk, do your worst!